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Literature from the damaged end of the machine.

The machine has declined to comment.

Pink roadside motel building and sign in warm light
TOUCH THE EVIDENCE

Nothing happened. That is exactly what it wants you to think.

Useful / Useless No. 3: The Hotel Shower Cap

You have never used it correctly. This has not stopped you.

PRESS FOR REASSURANCE

Too late. You are already reading Broken Zine.

INTENDED USE: protecting hair from water.

ACTUAL USES:

  • emergency bowl cover
  • tiny parachute for an action figure
  • shoe bag for exactly one shoe
  • evidence that the hotel expects you to be more organized than you are

It arrives folded into a box the size of a matchbook and leaves in your suitcase for three years.

Final rating: 6/10 useful, 10/10 spiritually confusing.

Portrait artwork for MARCY COIL

MARCY COIL

Marcy Coil tests ordinary objects for usefulness, uselessness, emotional leverage, and unexpected second careers.

Push something. The magazine is poorly supervised.

PUSH THE WEIRD BUTTON

A small bureaucrat somewhere just stamped APPROVED FOR NONSENSE.

MORE BROKEN ZINEBAD IDEA ARCADEODDITIES

ASK THE EDITOR A QUESTION

NO.

BROKEN ZINESOME THINGS SHOULDN’T BE FIXED.

DO NOT PRESS

YOU FOUND THE FOOTER. PLEASE LEAVE QUIETLY.